Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Touched with hypochondria, Mr. Cullen refers to bothersome unfinished business as a "stone in my belly." A stone in Mr. Cullen's belly since he became International's head man has been the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, requiring geographical integration of utility pyramids. Like many another utility magnate, Mr. Cullen tried to evade this "death sentence" without avail. SEC remained adamant and the stone in Mr. Cullen's belly still hurt. Last week...
...week at pastoral Oconomowoc, 33 miles west of Milwaukee, 42 of the fastest skaters in the U. S. whizzed around Fowler Lake. The first day 50 Oconomowocians watched them. The second day only 25 showed up. The rest of the week, even though it was free and only a stone's throw from the centre of town, the spectacle attracted fewer and fewer onlookers...
...Brown freshman team. Outstanding wrestler on the team is Thomas, a yardling who hails from Oklahoma. In his last match he succeeded in pinning his man as he led the team to a victory over Tufts. He wrestles 145. Redmon will take the 121 pound class, Blaine at 128, Stone in the 136 pound weight, Miles at 155, Tine entering the 165 pound weight, Robbins in the 175, and Aldrich in the top weight will make up the other members of the team...
...tallest (55-foot) British Columbian totem pole in captivity; 2) the world's finest bison-hide North American Indian paintings; 3) a fine, puma-headed statue from Bolivia, recently rescued from the Government Geology Laboratory, where it had reposed for 80 years as an interesting "sample of stone (undetermined...
Once every few months, and always for the summer, Elizabeth Bowen goes to Bowen's Court, County Cork, Ireland, an enormous, 18th-Century grey stone house, on land given to her ancestor, a Welsh Captain Bowen, by Cromwell. She inherited it in 1931. Despite its lack of electricity and plumbing, she likes it better than any place on earth...